Four Design Patterns for Event-Driven, Multi-Agent Systems

This post introduces four design patterns (orchestrator-worker, hierarchical agent, blackboard, market-based) for building event-driven, multi-agent systems. It details how to adapt these patterns using Apache Kafka for agent coordination, communication, and fault tolerance, moving away from traditional request/response models to a reactive, event-driven approach. The post emphasizes the operational simplifications and scalability benefits gained by leveraging Kafka's data streaming capabilities for agent interactions.